Postfix client SASL reports "No worthy mechs found"
in...@shortestpath.org
I'm having what appears to be a rather common problem with the Postfix
client and SASL authentication to the relay host. I am using Postfix
v2.2.3 with libsasl v2.0.20 on Slackware 10.
Everything compiled ok, and I can use SASL auth in the Postfix server
so that I can send authenticated SMTP from my mail client so I'm
guessing it's not a compilation problem. I compiled libsasl with
support for LOGIN and PLAIN and liblogin.so and libplain.so exist as
a result.
I placed the following in my main.cf:
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options =
and I placed:
[my.upstream.relay.com] username:password
in /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd. I have checked, manually, that my
upstream relay accepts my username and password and it does.
When Postfix tried to relay mail through my upstream host, however, it
reports:
"cannot SASL authenticate to server ... no mechanism available".
I turned on debug for that particular host and from what I saw
everything looked ok - it found an entry in sasl_passwd for the host,
it reported that it was going to use the correct username and
password, it reported that it was going to connect to the correct
host, it reported that the host supported LOGIN and PLAIN methods but
then reports:
"warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found"
When looking into this problem a few mailing list posts reported that
under the RPM-based Linux distributions one should install the
liblogin-plugin and libplain-plugin packages. Of course, being on
Slackware I don't have RPMs to play with and, as far as I was aware,
I had correctly compiled in support for these method anyway.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
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Sean Kelly
Patrick Ben Koetter
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